Which food is better for you?

November 15, 2013

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Chinese: Beef or Chicken?

It depends.

If you order General Tso's, orange, sesame, honey, kung pao, or some other breaded, fried, sauce-laden chicken dish, you'll push away from the table with 1,000 to 1,200 calories...and that's without any rice. That's more than beef with broccoli and other unbreaded beef dishes, which have about 700 to 900 calories without rice.

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9of23

Chinese: Beef or Chicken?

It depends.

If you order General Tso's, orange, sesame, honey, kung pao, or some other breaded, fried, sauce-laden chicken dish, you'll push away from the table with 1,000 to 1,200 calories...and that's without any rice. That's more than beef with broccoli and other unbreaded beef dishes, which have about 700 to 900 calories without rice.